Been watching this pasta maker for a little while.
Seems a good price at 20% off regular price $349. Still yet to pull the pin and decide whether it's worth it or whether I'll get the use out of it.
CamelCamelCamel.
And Harvey Norman which is useful for price matching.
Or, we we translate the price to the already made pasta, around 140 kgs.
While you are 100% right, as someone that has the older version of this machine - fresh pasta is just on another level. Its also super quick often less than 15min if you boil the water at the same time as making the pasta. You can also make things like 'pasta sheets' which are heaps better than those dried packet sheets!
Only real downside is the machine cleaning can be a bit of a pain in the you know what…
We have had ours for 5 years and probably made 200 pasta dishes… so price per meal is getting more reasonable.
Not if you use really fresh pasta all the time. That stuff costs $16 kg at the markets.
I like it because
- If I have eggs, water and flour I have fresh pasta.
- I can use the flour types I want. I currently use Tipo00 and a wholemeal spelt mix.
- I could add extra flavours if I felt like it.
It is a bit of a PITA to clean but not excessively so. Also you get a bit of dough left over but I finish that off with my hand machine.
This is one purchase I don’t regret.
Are the parts easily cleaned in the dishwasher?
I tend to handwash mine. Certainly the bits that are hardest to clean, like the plastic “bowl”, the lid and the dies can be dishwashed. The rest of it is just a cursory scrub. I usually make the pasta first then clean the bits whilst the pasta sauce is simmering. I then leave them in the dish rack to air dry.
You can make about 500 to 600gms of pasta in one go. The real PITA is you need to strip down, clean and reassemble if you want more than that.
The difference in taste to the dry stuff is chalk and cheese. We just gave up on dried spaghetti entirely.
@Lizard Spock: Will be interested in what you think. Be very precise with your measurements on the flour and water.
For the two cup equivalent I use 400g of flour then 2/3rds of a cup of an egg/water melange that I then whisk. Drizzle this in through the vents in the lid when the flour/melange is mixing. After cutting each set of strands liberally dust them with flour and fluff them out a bit to separate. I have a small container with lots of holes in the top I use as a flour shaker. This stops them clumping when you cook or store them.
You will get a little bit of dough left over. I put this through my hand crank machine but my friend creates little dumplings for soup.
It might take a little bit of hit and miss to get it exactly right but persevere.
@try2bhelpful: Thanks for this ☺️ Username checks out. I will report back with what I think of it when it arrives. We have chickens so as a result we have plenty of eggs to make pasta with. We also got an ice-cream maker recently so making good use of the eggs.
I have the old one and it's great. But for the effort I only ever bother making flavoured pasta. A satchet of tomato paste makes awesome tomato pasta, some frozen spinach thawed makes nice spinach pasta and squid ink is devine.
Not for you if you like Al dente.
If you want al dente flavoured pasta, make a big batch and let them dry
I tried but because I don't use egg for allergy reasons the pasta becomes crumbly. Maybe I'm not doing something right. I use bread flour because I also make bread at home.
Washing up isn't too bad as it's mostly dishwasher safe. But it does take up a lot of space
I put mine on a shelf in the pantry. Do agree they are large.
Oh more so the bits in the dishwasher because you need to separate it out.
Ahh. I hand wash mine. I don’t find it that bad to do. I don’t think I would dishwasher the crank mechanism. It looks like the coating would come off.
Silicon mat, create a well in flour, break in eggs, gain some muscle, eat carbs.
Been there, done that, never again. I have a hand crank machine and I barely used it because I had to hand knead the dough. Maybe put it in electric mixer with sufficiently grunty motor for dough but it is still a PITA running largish amounts it through the machine.
It's only for people willing to spend lots of time in the kitchen.
You could say that of anything that isn’t take away or eating out.
Bought one for the wife a week ago for $279 (minus a $20 cashback from Commbank =$259). And we have Vietnamese noodles every single day since then lmao.
Could you share the recipe? Thanks.
Hell yeah…same please!
Bột bánh canh:
- 500g flour
- 190g water (she used spinach juice. I think any juice should work)
Bún (for Spicy Beef Noodles/Bún Bò Huế)
- 350g rice starch
- 50g potato starch
- 50g flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 4g xanthan gum
- 245ml boiled water
Thank you.
My only issus is the cost of the pasta shape dies. Really want a few others but at $40-$50 each i cant bring myself to buy more.
https://www.statewideapp.com.au/philips/other-equipment-cook…
Try this place. The dies seem to be around $20.
Seen some aftermarket discs on YouTube
Links please?
From memory, The Good Guys Commercial has this for $279 everyday (w/out delivery).
Looks like Harvey Norman also has it on sale for $279. You could then get Retravision to price beat HN's price. Retravision also has 5% off for RAC members (may be a WA thing). However, I've found Retravision uses such things as more of a marketing tool. They are heavy on the exceptions. Still, if you're in WA & don't need delivery, Retravision may work out cheapest. https://www.retravision.com.au/why-choose-retravision#rac
I see myer has it at the same price.